Saturday, January 14, 2012

Through Four Generations

Beulah had a son, Lee. Lee had a daughter, Marsha. Marsha had a son, Jeff.Four generations, two sets of twins, and we think we see some familial similarities.

Beulah and Marsha,grandmother & granddaughter.

Both hadfraternal twins.

Lee and Jeff,grandfather & grandson.

Both werefraternal twins.

What do you think?

. . . . . . . . . .This is a Sepia Saturday post. You can go look for posts and photos about twins but I think it's more likely you'll see photos of people in hats this week. Join the fun and post some old photos if you'd like. Everyone's invited.

Yes indeed - lots of similarities. I have a photo of my great aunt at age 16 (about 1925) that my children always thought was a picture of me. That's why I always study old photos to find "our" noses, chins, jawlines, eyes.

Wendy, I hope you'll post the two photos sometime. I don't think I look like any of my ancestors but my brother thought he saw a resemblance between me and one of Beulah's sisters. It is interesting to look for similarities.

Bob, now I'm wondering which post suggestion you saw with a hat. The "you might also like" suggestions change every time the blog/page loads. Now I'll have to go back through my photos. Hmmmm.

Barbara, I'm not a twin. My father, Lee, is a twin and my sister, Marsha, had twins. Because fraternal twins skip a generation and go from father, through daughter, who often has the twins, my sister and I knew that one or both of us would be more likely to have twins.

There are twins in my mother's line, too. I wrote a post earlier about twins in our family. If you're interested you can read it at http://nancysfamilyhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/twins-run-in-family.html.

Spooky. My uncle once mistook a photo of my great grandfather for my brother. I must find a photo of my brother with a moustache and post the two of them together. Very close family resemblances in your pictures :-)

yes it is fun to see those similarities descending through the ages....twins...once in my teen years I mentioned that I wished I were twins to which Mom blanched! Twins were in our genes too, but she always said that 2 of me would have put here 6 foot under! I just wanted to do more than one thing and in my pre-teen mind that would have been solved with being a twin!

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Sometimes I want to jump back in time, into the lives of my ancestors. Not to stay, of course -- too many modern conveniences I'd rather not do without -- but to meet them and watch their interactions with each other. Since I can't do that, I spend time learning about them and the times in which they lived. I look forward to meeting them. I've been seriously searching for my ancestors for nearly 8 years. I plan to continue indefinitely.
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